Our first issue of Impatica Tips was very well received. We would like to thank all of you who shared your thoughts and suggestions with us. Your enthusiasm is infectious and always appreciated. We hope that you find the tips in this issue useful as well. We are archiving our previous editions at this location. Please feel free to review them at your leisure and read some of the comments we received from the Impatica Tips community. Volume 01-02 March 31, 2005 Want to review our previous editions of Impatica Tips? Please visit our archive.   Receive Impatica Tips in your Inbox! You can subscribe and get Impatica Tips twice a month.   Are you up to date? The latest version of Impatica products is currently 3.3.3. Version 2 users: Version 3 of Impatica for PowerPoint requires new registration information. If you would like to upgrade your software, please contact the Impatica Sales Team Version 3 Users: - Click here to download the latest version of Impatica for PowerPoint. - Click here to download the latest version of Impatica OnCue.   Your feedback is very important to us! Send your ideas for future editions of Impatica Tips to Impatica Customer Support Video Settings: What You Need to Know Impatica for PowerPoint offers a frame rate setting with four options: low, medium, high and file, which will be applied to all AVI videos contained within a PowerPoint presentation. This setting, combined with the original frame rate of each source video, determines exactly how many frames per second will be retained in the impaticized video. Refer to the chart below to determine exactly which frame rate will be produced for each of your videos: Original Video Frame Rate (fps) Actual Converted Frame Rate (fps) Low Medium High File 5 1 5 5 5 6 2 6 6 6 10 2 5 10 10 12 2 6 6 12 15 3 5 15 15 20 2 5 10 20 24 2 6 12 24 28 2 4 14 28 30 2 6 15 30 Recommendations: In order to reach the widest possible audience with your video, we recommend producing multiple impaticized presentations, each tailored for a specific Internet connection speed. For most videos we recommend using the following settings: 12 fps 24-bit color depth Frame size that is no larger than 240 X 176 PCM format, WAV file audio Example Conversion Settings: Using a video created with these recommendations, we suggest you produce impaticized presentations with the following conversion settings: Viewer Connection: Dial-up Connections Moderate Connections High Speed Connections Encode for Speed: Still 128 kbps 256 kbps Frame Rate: n/a High (= a 6 fps result) File (= a 12 fps result) Network Overhead: Default Default Default NOTE: These three conversions must be saved to different folders so that the impaticized videos do not overwrite each other when they are produced. New Impatica File Format "-imp.jar": Delivering Impaticized Content without a Web Browser With the latest version of Impatica for PowerPoint, PowerPoint presentations can be converted to the new "-imp.jar" file format. Not only can this presentation be streamed through a Web page or e-mail message, just like the classic ".imp" file, but it can also be downloaded and viewed as a standalone presentation. To do so, simply double-click the "-imp.jar" file on any system with a compatible Java Virtual Machine (the Microsoft JVM is not supported). Within the standalone viewer's "File" menu, there is a Print option which will send the entire presentation to the printer. The "-imp.jar" file is a package that contains the impaticized presentation and the Impatica player applet. Since the file includes both of these components, it can be distributed as a stand-alone file, for example as an e-mail attachment. OnCue Edit Window Shortcut Keys Impatica OnCue offers several keyboard shortcuts that make using the edit window quicker and easier. The following keyboard shortcuts may be used in the OnCue Edit window: + Zoom In - Zoom Out s Place Slide p Place Paragraph a Place Animation Spacebar Play/Pause c Center Current Playhead Position Ctrl - c Move Playhead To Center Of View , (comma) Move Playhead Left . (period) Move Playhead Right Alt - Ctrl - , Move Playhead To Start Of Movie Alt - Ctrl - . Move Playhead To End Of Movie Alt - , Scroll Left Alt - . Scroll Right Ctrl - , Scroll Block Left Ctrl - . Scroll Block Right Ctrl - s Save Ctrl - Shift - z Revert Ctrl - i Import Animation Cues From Source Did you do a custom installation of QuickTime? Creating presentations with Impatica OnCue uses components that are not installed by either the minimum or recommended installations of QuickTime. If you did not choose a custom installation when you installed QuickTime, please refer to the instructions in the Impatica OnCue User's Manual: http://www.impatica.com/download/download-oncue.html